Refrigerator



W. SIMS.

Refrigerator. v No. 22,897. Patented Feb. 1859.

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WILLIAM SIMS, OF DA "EON, OHIO.

REFRIGERATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 22,897, dated February 8, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VILLIAM SIMS, of Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State ofOhio, have invented a new and useful Improvement. in Refrigerators; and I hereby declare thefollowing to be a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making part of this specification, in which a refrigerator embodying my improvement is represented by a vertical section.

The object of the said improvement is to freely carry off all septic gases without producing a wasteful circulation of air in the portion of the refrigerator in which the ice and articles to bepreserved are placed.

A, B, and C, are three boxes nested one within the other so as to leave two interstices a, Z), of which the outer one a, contains fixed air, and the inner one o, is packed with charcoal. The ice and articles to be cooled or preserved are placed in the lower part of the receptacle C.

D, is a water trap to drain water while excluding air from the receptacle C, at this part.

0, d, are small ventages for superfluous moisture from the space a.

My ventilating arrangement consists as follows. E, and F, are two ventilating passages communicating from without to the highest part of the receptacle C. It is obvlous that the greater buoyancy of the ammoniacal and other septic gases, will cause them to mingle with and be carried off by a current of air flowing along the ceiling of the receptacle while the buoyancy of the ventilating current itself will prevent its mingling with or materially affecting the temperature of the air below it in the main body of the receptacle. It is preferred to locate the passages E, and F, in opposite or distant parts of the refrigerator and one of them (E), may be protected at its mouth by a fine wire gauze 6, while the other (F), may enter a flue so as to increase the current of air through the upper region of the receptacle C.

I claim as new and of my invention.

The described arrangement of the ventilating passages E and F, communicating with the upper part of a receptacle C, in the lower part of which are placed ice and articles to be cooled or preserved, and in whose lower part circulation of air is avoided in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony of which invention, I hereunto set my hand.

WM. SIMS. Witnesses Gno. H. KNIGHT, Jos. SCHNEIDER. 

